A growing number of locals say it is shameful that Broward County uses public funds on Forrest Street when the man it was named for, Confederate Gen. Nathan “the Devil” Forrest, led the Ku Klux Klan, a group that lynched and terrorized thousands of black families. The county only maintains…
Wanna get to know the shady, lesser-known ties between officials and developers and how this collusion has benefited corporate interests at the cost of the homeless people? Follow Food Not Bombs activist Nathan Pim to 10 sites from FAT Village to Riverwalk. They called it the corruption tour. The first one…
In a small, cheery, wood-paneled office in the back of the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, the young, wavy-haired receptionist was polite but firm. “Mr. Abovitz isn’t available right now.” A green cartoon dragon grinned from the wall to her right, next to a glass-walled conference room…
It’s been a busy month for South Florida’s Black Lives Matter activists. Two weeks ago, they rallied for justice in the wake of Greg Frazier’s shooting death in Pompano Beach. On Sunday evening, activists gathered once again, this time to protest the shooting death of Keith Scott Lamont, another black man…
For decades Forrest Street has stretched across Hollywood, from the city’s poor Liberia neighborhood, to its affluent coastline. For more than a year, though, many locals have been urging city leaders to rename the road due to its namesake’s unscrupulous history. Commissioners have been dawdling for months about changing the street’s name, but…
It’s been more than two weeks since Gregory Frazier was fatally shot by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies in his Pompano Beach backyard. And we still don’t know the names of the two deputies who are responsible. By way of comparison, when Alton Sterling was shot by Baton Rouge police in…
You think you’ve had a shitty week? If it makes you feel any better the tenants at the South Harbor Plaza near Port Everglades on SE 17th St. are having a much shittier week than you. Literal nearby shit has been causing a foul odor to envelop the area, with residents…
You might be sitting there thinking Why would I hate the Cleveland Browns?, and for that, I don’t blame you; they are rather anonymous in their sucking. They lurk in the shadows with their suck, winning three-to-five games every season, gobble up top draft picks, then pass them through their…
For at least six years, Crescent House, a Fort Lauderdale group home for teenage boys, was the source of constant calls to the police. Neighbors found crack cocaine baggies littering the streets, and said that kids pelted their car with rocks. Finally, this summer, the city shut down the facility,…
The Port Everglades water distribution system supplies the cruise ships, Broward County Convention Center, and Harbor Shops (a plaza with a Publix, handful of eateries, and a gym for mothers and their babies). Now the Port is warning its users about their drinking water. The City of Fort Lauderdale once…
A foul stench haunts the South Harbor Plaza near Port Everglades on Southeast 17th Street. There’s a Thai restaurant, a Carrabas Italian Grill, a cafe, a dry cleaners, a cellphone provider, and other shops that couldn’t omit that odor, which can only be described as human feces with subtle undertones…
Dear Stoner: Why are all you potheads so gung-ho about the benefits of smoking weed? I smoke it from time to time, but I don’t tell my friends to light up a joint instead of visiting the doctor. It’s pot, not magic beans. Grinding Gary Dear Gary: Magic buds, maybe…
Blake Shelton and Adam Levine from The Voice may have the most notable bromance among NBC reality shows, but Howie Mandel and Nick Cannnon aren’t far behind. Mandel, a judge on America’s Got Talent, and Cannon, the host, co-headline a comedy show at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at Hard Rock…
The Monday after Gregory Frazier was fatally shot by deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in his backyard, Sheriff Scott Israel stood in front of an angry crowd that had gathered at the Bethel A.M.E Church in Pompano Beach and made an announcement: all officer-involved shootings, including this one, would…
Before the housing bubble burst in 2008, the average person in the tri-county area spent only 28.5 percent of their income on rent. But by the end of 2015 that percentage shot up to 43.8 percent. After Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Miami metropolitan area is considered the third…
Carmella Gardner has many fond memories of Liberia, the Hollywood neighborhood she grew up. From family get-togethers during the holidays to watching her children play in the same streets she once did. However, this summer the 45-year-old African American grandmother says she has quietly suffered because she lives on…
Most days, Gina Prada leaves her school on the outskirts of Cúcuta, Colombia. The wispy-thin ninth-grader walks down a littered dirt road and buys a little flour or a few pieces of bread. Then she stuffs the goods into her bookbag, boards a bus to ride across the border to…
South Florida artists Benaiah Gravitz and Bobbie Jones say they are on a mission to bridge the gap between “hood” and “geek” culture with their new audio manga series The Adventures of Benny Gravitz. The satire comic focuses on a black youth named Benny, named after Benaiah, and chronicles his…
Growing up in Trinidad, Johanne Rahaman didn’t realize she was poor. “It was idyllic,” she says. “I had all these friends whose homes I would just walk into. If we didn’t have food, I could go to my neighbor’s house, and their parents or grandparents would feed me.” As a…
Inside a small guest cabin on the Carnival Victory, 6-year-old Qwentyn Hunter and his 10-year-old brother, Jermaine, begged their parents to order peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from room service. It was the last day of the family’s four-day trip from Miami to Mexico in October 2013, and the ship…
Broward Sheriff’s deputies are being called a bunch of crybabies. On September 11, four Dolphins players kneeled during the national anthem in a game against Seattle Seahawks. Now the Broward cop union president is offended and wants to stop escorting the team until every single player is forced to stand. …
You’ve seen it happen: you’re driving down I-95, minding your own business, when all of a sudden some douchebag in the express lane realizes they’re about to miss their exit and abruptly plows through the orange plastic poles, forcing you to slam on the brakes and narrowly avoid a messy…
